Capt. William Crabtree, IV

Children of William Crabtree and Hannah Whitaker are:

i. William Crabtree, born 1748 in Baltimore County, Maryland; died 1818 in Tazwell County, Virginia, United States; married (1) Hannah Lyons; married (2) Catherine Starnes Aft. January 01, 1777.

	 Notes for William Crabtree: WILLIAM CRABTREE IV, was active as an officer in the Washington County Militia during the Revolutionary War. He manned the various garrisons and forts along the Holston and Clinch Rivers which protected the settlers from British inspired Indian attacks. He fought at the battle of Pt. Pleasant in October 1774. He also fought at the battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina in 1780. In this battle, the backwoods men of Southwest Virginia defeated a British force under Col. Ferguson. This ended Gen. Cornwallis' threat to the frontier settlements of North Carolina and Virginia. It enabled people of the frontier to continue in assisting the Continental Army who were fighting the British in the major battles in the East with food, lead, gun powder, and other provisions necessary in the war effort. 

William Crabtree. Probably born in Baltimore County, Maryland, circa 1748, and the son of William Crabtree and Hannah Whittaker, who later lived on the Big Lick near Saltville. His father died in 1777. His first wife was Hannah Lyon, sister to the long hunter Humberson Lyon. After her death he was married in 1777 to Katherine Starnes and she died in Tazewell County in 1818. In 1777 he was living on Watauga, not far above its junction with the Holston.

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